Automated vehicles, already on the road in some form, will continue to rapidly enter the on-ramps, highways and Canadian roadways, packed with time-saving benefits and reducing road collisions, suggests a new report.

When I think about forecasting for the cloud computing industry, one word springs to mind; innovation.

Cloud technology, the way we use it, and even the way we talk about it, has matured hugely over the past year. While we do still talk about “cloud” as some abstract technology choice (“should you or should you not use “the cloud?” we debate), I predict that this year, the conversation will get subtler and the use cases more sophisticated.

2014 was a whirlwind of a year. Since I wrote An Open Letter to Technology Educators approximately a year ago, a lot has changed for BrainStation and we’ve learned a lot along the way. Two things haven’t changed: software is still “eating the world” and our goal to empower 1 million people by 2020 is more alive than ever.

As co-author of Deloitte’s annual Predictions report on technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) I get to predict all kinds of cool things annually: 3D printers, wearable computers, tablets, phablets and drones are just a few futuristic examples.

But my favourite prediction of the last ten years is our 2015 view on the future of the print book.

Netflix’s low fee of $8 per month is easily one of the greatest gifts to home entertainment, especially in Canada, where cable is expensive and restrictive. Award-winning original content on top of piles of television series and movies makes the low monthly cost a wise investment.

A recent series of IDC reports, commissioned by Telus, predicts that 2015 will be a transformative year for technology in Canada, as businesses increasingly embrace cloud, mobile, analytic and social technologies to accelerate innovation and gain a competitive advantage.

"The cloud will be embraced en masse in 2015 because the benefits are huge," the Canadian company believes. "By digitizing information-intensive processes, costs can be cut by up to 90% and turnaround times improved by several orders of magnitude."